The H II Region Discovery Survey (HRDS) discovered
hundreds of previously unknown regions of recent massive
star formation in the Milky Way Galaxy. The figure to the
right shows the regions of the Galaxy probed by the
original Green Bank Telescope (GBT) HRDS, the Arecibo
HRDS, and the WISE Extension to the HRDS. The HRDS team is
composed of Dr. Dana Balser (NRAO), Professor Thomas Bania
(Boston University), Professor Loren Anderson (West
Virginia University), and myself.

I am interested in understanding the physical properties of these H II regions and what
they can tell us about the chemical structure of the Milky Way. This extensive H II region
survey will provide a huge dataset with which we can begin to understand the structure and
evolution of our Galaxy.

I began working on this project when I was an
undergraduate at Boston University. I was awarded an REU
Fellowship at the NRAO in Charlottesville in the Summer of
2012 to continue working on this project with Dr. Dana
Balser. I continue to work on it as a graduate student at
UVA in Charlottesville.